Faculty and Staff
Professor of Printmaking and 2-D Fundamentals
MFA University of Georgia (Highest Distinction award)
BFA Kansas City Art Institute (Printmaking intermedia)
(Courses: Introduction to Printmaking, Intermediate Printmaking, Theory and Application, Introduction to Screenprinting, 2-D Fundamentals)
Stephanie Dotson's work explores disruption of pattern as it relates to both spatial and psychological transformation and meditations on domestic and creative labor. Recent exhibitions include the ca53776v2.gallery, Beta Epochs, the Architectural Fund of Santa Barbara, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, the ArtsFund, Westmont Ridley Tree Museum of Art and UCSB's College of Creative Studies. Her work has been included in solo and two person exhibits in Ventura, Kansas City, New York, Atlanta, Chicago and Philadelphia. Dotson was recently featured in LUM art magazine. She received Joan Mitchell fellowships for her artist residencies at The Vermont Studio Center and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, she also completed an artist residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. Dotson is a former member of the LA branch of the artist-run gallery Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Dotson currently resides in Santa Barbara. When not teaching she can be found working in her art studio in downtown Carpinteria.
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Assistant Professor of Art
MFA, Montana State University
BFA, Kansas City Art Institute
(Courses: Studio Art Foundations 3-D, Introduction to Sculpture, Beginning Casting, Sculpture Fabrication)
Karen Tepaz - Studio Faculty
Assistant Professor of Art
MFA, Yale University (Sculpture)
BFA, California State University, Long Beach (Ceramics)
(Courses: Fundamentals of Ceramics, Intermediate Ceramics, and Ceramic Sculpture)
Karen Tepaz is a visual artist born in Los Angeles, CA. With a practice rooted in the exploration of form and color, Tepaz creates 3-dimensional work/objects/sculptures that investigate themes of motherhood, including revisiting childhood memories of angst, the body and energy sources. Tepaz's sculptures, drawings and installations have been exhibited nationally and internationally, at Sardine Gallery, Thomas Hunter Projects, Underdonk, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles, Copyright Berlin, 12.26 Gallery TX, Fordham University, The Shirly Fiterman Art Center, BMCC, Human Resources LA, among others. She has participated in residencies at Yaddo, NY, Art Farm, NE and Long Beach City College, CA. Tepaz co-curated "Flat Touch" and "In Between the Lines" in the Steuben Gallery at Pratt Institute. Tepaz lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA.
Associate Professor of Art
MFA, Rhode Island School of Design (painting/drawing)
BFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University (painting/drawing)
(Courses: Fundamentals of Painting, Figure and Portrait Drawing, Fundamentals of Drawing, Integrated Painting and Drawing, Art Field Studies)
Atkinson Gallery
Location:
Humanities Building, Room 202
East Campus, Santa Barbara City College, 721 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109
Christopher Ulivo was born in Brooklyn, NY and lives and works in Ventura, CA. His egg tempera paintings imagine the confluences and collisions of fate, myth, personal lineage and the unintended consequences of unlimited wish fulfillment. The resulting paintings are visually dense and darkly humorous. In the course of his career, he has both exhibited and organized shows across the United States and Europe including: Half Gallery Los Angeles; Susan Inglett Gallery, New York; Axel Obiger, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara; The Felix Art Fair Los Angeles; The Armory Show, New York and The Benkai Museum, Athens.
Assistant Professor of Art
MFA UC Santa Barbara (Regents Fellow)
BA Wesleyan University (English)
(Courses: Fundamentals of Drawing, Intermediate Drawing, Integrated Drawing and Painting, Art Field Studies)
Stephanie Washburn works in a range of media including drawing, collage, photography and video. Her projects explore materiality, the physical and natural world and the landscape genre in relationship to environmental crisis. Recent exhibitions include Taft Botanical Gardens, Ojai, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara CA; Beaconsfield, London, UK; Claremont University, Claremont, CA; ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT; Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA and Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, University of California, Agnes Gund and Frederick R. Weisman Foundations. Reviews include The Los Angeles Times, New American Paintings, Art Fag City and Vice. Her photographs have been published in Heliotrope, Harper's Magazine, and The LA Review of Books.